The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-11
A BOUT WITH OLD CROW.

True 1nwardness of the Recent jackson Ban
quet aud Judge Humans Illness.
Columbus Sunday News.
There were over hundred kilograms sent
here yesterday asking for newspaper specials
concerning the Judges condition and prospects
of recovery. There were just as many replies
sent back saying that Judge Thurman was per-
fectlv WE'LL that he not taken i'll at the ban
quet as seriously as Stated, and that, in fact the
mountain was only common molehill. Judge
Thurman yesterday noon, when seen by Sun
day News representative. was we'll ever,
barring the slight effects OF the excitement of be-
ing Up late at the banquet the night before
How is it, then, the reader asks, that the en-
tire press all over the country had Judge
Thurman stricken down yesterday and ring
ing with denials of it to-day2 just this after
midnight WAS passed. and marked the celebra-
ton of another st. Jackson's day, after the Old
Crow whisky with its soul and intestine searching
warmth had made the disciples of 'tOld Hickory"
totally forgetful of expenses; after all this,
and while Bill Hill making a speech
which no one was listening, at that moment one
of the banaueters got his unsteady optics on the
old Roman, who sat quietly in his chair troub-
ling no one and in his normal health save the ex-
element Of the banquet The banqueter with
the unsteady eye saw two old Romans instead
Of one He and commanded Bill Hill to
cease his eloauenee. He declared that Judge
Thurman was sick. when in fact the Judge was
liz much better health than the vociferous
brother who called the attention of the
entire banquet hall to him. Judge Thurman
was taken home in a carriage, and arrived there
safely.
That was all the foundation for the startling
report that brought in anxious inquiries over
many a wire from the ATTAIN tic to the Pacific.
1t is annoying to his friends that he should have
been subjected TO disagreeable publicity. 1t is
also pleasing tribute to the worth of our dis
| tinguished felow-citiZen to know, as was dem
| onstrated yesterday. that all the country inter
| ests Itself in his well-being and good health.
But little remains to be said. city d'gnitary,
an expert in whisky, snd a iHdge in that men
staple Of St Jackson banquet states that the
Old Crow consumed Friday night WAS not only
| vile, bat damnabe. No wonder that one of the
jewellers imagined Judge, Thurman i'll after the
reveler had rasbly taken IN more than the regu-
| lar quota OF snorts.
| "Nnat kind of whisky do Ohio Democrats
| drink7' asked friend Of Henry w atterson after
the Kentuckan had barely escaped with his life
| from last years banquet
sDon't know about all Of them but the Co.
| lunlbus Democrats have brew for banqueting
| uses that would split Kentucky bowider of
| granite, Sv CAD, sah 1t would sab, / assure
YOU"
Henry had just been here He knew how it
| was.
| Columbus Dispatch.
During the progress of the jackson Club
banquet last night a festive individual
| liquid refreshments until his stomach robelled,
| and he reached for his hat to save spelling the
| floor. But his arm was unsteady and he missed
| the hat at the first shot and beslobbered the
| floor, causing those in the Immediate vicinity to
| hastily seek other seats The indisposed indi-
vidual finally slid out, wiped out his hat with
his handkerchief, and went out to let the mid
night zephyrs fan his fevered brow.
| The late fellows. who sat out tbs banquet and
sampled the 'Old Crow" which had remained
bottled up on the tables until after O'Clock
this morning, must have found the stuff toe
strong for their stomachs, for the hall and the
ho0 otoIH IN wv EfS fol - r
| morning, and jauitor John Ward had big iot
of mopiug them off The filthy condition of the
| lower hall was the cause Of much profanely- ex
| pressed Indignation this morning.